Chaucer and the French Tradition: A Study in Style and Meaning

by Charles Muscatine

Book Overview

Chaucer and the French Tradition , first published in 1957, is notable among modern studies of Chaucer for its attention to the importance of style. The author offers first an analysis of the two dominant traditions of style in the French literature on which Chaucer's poetry is based: the courtly, and the "bourgeois" or realistic. He then studies the stylistic character of the three important tarly poems, arguing that Chaucer's development was not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520009088
• ISBN13: 9780520009080
• Release Date: March 1965
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"